The delamination effect in laminated von Kármán plates under unilateral boundary conditions. A variational-hemivariational inequality approachThe delamination effect in laminated von Kármán plates under unilateral boundary conditions. A variational-hemivariational inequality approach Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication Δημοσίευση σε Περιοδικό με Κριτές 2015-10-111990enThis paper deals with the delamination effect for laminated plates undergoing large displacements (v. Kármán plates). The interaction between the laminae due to the binding material as well as the delamination effect are described by means of a nonmonotone, possibly multivalued law, while on the boundary of each lamina general unilateral boundary conditions obeying monotone laws are assumed to hold. The interface and the boundary laws are written in terms of nonconvex and convex superpotentials, respectively. The problem is written in the form of a variational-hemivariational inequality. Certain results on the existence and the approximation of the solution of this problem are obtained by means of compactness, monotonicity and average value arguments.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Journal of Elasticity12369-96 Stavroulakis Georgios Σταυρουλακης Γεωργιος Panagiotopoulos, P. D., 1950- Kluwer Academic